Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:28:08 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd, DHCP and W98 on LAN: The saga continues Message-ID: <20001202132808.S99903@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012021547330.71156-100000@genisis.istar.ca>; from genisis@istar.ca on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:51:06PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012021536380.60021-100000@www.bellnetworks.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012021547330.71156-100000@genisis.istar.ca>
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On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:51:06PM -0500, Dru wrote: > > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Jim Freeze wrote: > > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Dru wrote: > > > > > > Is Ethernet 0 a real (unused) NIC or some type of RAS, VPN, or dialup > > > stuff? > > > > Dunno. I do have a TCP/IP Dial Up Adapter listed in the Network control > > panel. > > > If you don't use it, remove it as it will cause problems. However, you > seem to have a weirder problem on your BSD box as your NIC is using ARP's > broadcast address as it's MAC address (?!?) > > > > % dmesg | grep al0 > > al0: <ADMtek AN985 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x11 int a irq 5 on pci0.11.0 > > al0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > al0: autoneg complete, link status good (full-duplex, 100Mbps) > > al0: promiscuous mode enabled > > Having never seen this before, are both NICs on your LAN set for and > running at full-duplex? Does "dmesg" make a difference if you stop your > "tcpdump", as I think that's why the NIC is showing in promiscous mode. I told you this MAC was a problem last week, Jim. Did you ever try to contact the author of the al(4) driver like I suggested? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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